Top story A Flydubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv was diverted to Tabuk, Saudi Arabia, on Wednesday following a violent altercation between the two pilots, according to multiple eyewitness...
BEIRUT — The London start-up ElevenLabs, specializing in AI-generated voices, has joined the ranks of the world’s most highly valued AI labs after a share sale doubled its valuation to $22 billion,...
BEIRUT — Qatar's Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani has accused his Israeli counterpart, Benjamin Netanyahu, of being a "war criminal" and condemned Israel's...
BEIRUT — Lebanon’s Internal Security Forces warned Tuesday about six fake investment and trading websites that imitate legitimate companies, saying an international fraud network behind the sites...
Israel's defense minister on Wednesday called an incident on board a Tel Aviv-bound plane an "attempted jihadist terror attack," after it made an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia due...
Six journalists from an Egyptian investigative platform have been arrested since Monday, officials from the platform announced Wednesday, information confirmed by a local human rights NGO, AFP...
Three ships were attacked Tuesday in the Strait of Hormuz, the British maritime security agency UKMTO reported Wednesday, according to AFP. An oil tanker and two other tankers were hit by...
Five people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a bus in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, according to the Palestinian territory’s Civil Defense, AFP reported. The Civil Defense, which operates...
On Sunday, the Syrian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood issued a clear message in a statement through its opaque shura council that quickly made headlines: The group intends to "continue its...
Top story Iran has received a formal response from the United States to its latest offer to end the war in the Middle East, the government said Wednesday, as reported by state media, without...
Nearly 12 years after the U.S.-led coalition was formed to fight the Islamic State (IS) organization, Operation Inherent Resolve has ended in Iraq. The last U.S. troops and military equipment are...
At least 20 lawyers stepped forward on Tuesday when Maroun Abu Jaoudeh, president of the Military Cassation Court, called Ahmad al-Assir’s name. The Salafist cleric was sentenced to death by the...
BEIRUT — Children in Lebanon are going hungry, missing health care and dropping out of school as four in five households struggle to meet their basic needs, according to a UNICEF report published...
Lebanon’s public education sector began the new school year on Sept. 15 with around 30 schools closing their doors. The academic year was already weighed down by seven years of economic crisis and...
BEIRUT — Justice Minister Adel Nassar stated on Wednesday that the investigation into the Aug. 4 Beirut Port explosion was "on track" and that an indictment was “expected before the end...
Iran executed two men Wednesday in connection with anti-government protests in January, the judiciary-affiliated Mizan news agency reported, according to AFP . Ali Hemmati and Majid Nik-Andish...
Saudi Arabia on Wednesday denied that its representatives took part in a meeting in Abu Dhabi between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and UAE President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, AFP...
Iran has received a formal US response to its latest proposal to end the war in the Middle East, the government said Wednesday, without disclosing its contents, AFP reported. “Today at the...
After months of tensions, growing regional instability could push Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates toward reconciliation.On Tuesday, UAE Vice President Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan...
BEIRUT — It is a little after 8 a.m. on Wednesday. Flydubai flight FZ1073, which departed Dubai for Tel Aviv, is flying over northern Saudi Arabia. On board are around 180 people, most of them...
This is a little-known “chapter” in Isabel Allende’s life. In the 1950s, while still a teenager, the future author of "The House of the Spirits" — an international bestseller whose 1993...
U.S. Senate Republicans on Tuesday blocked a bid to require President Donald Trump's administration to report to Congress on increasing violence in the occupied West Bank, including the killing...
Syrian authorities announced Tuesday that they had arrested three members of a cell allegedly “affiliated with Hezbollah” in the province of Deraa, in the south of the country near the...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2026 Some key things to watch today:9:30 a.m.: Consultative session on revising the law criminalizing sexual...
SOUTH LEBANON — After initially announcing that an Israeli drone strike had wounded four people, including a Lebanese soldier, Wednesday morning in Nabatieh Fawqa in southern Lebanon, the Lebanese...
